THE City of Sunderland second Open Meet was a huge success this year and a bonus to the area's swimming calendar.

Over 36 clubs from throughout Britain took part but it was another local city club, Newcastle, who came away as a top club ahead of Scottish clubs Carnegie and last year’s winners City of Aberdeen.

Top performer of the weekend had to be Andrew Mayor, a Scottish swimmer who swims for City of Newcastle, who dominated the butterfly events.

Swimming well away from the field Mayor took the 200m event in 2:01.47. He then followed this with 53.81 to win the 100m race in a time faster than his final at the British Championships.

“I came to see where I am at the moment,” said Mayor. “And I am pleased with the result. I haven’t been too well this week so it was good to see I can still race as fast. This puts me in the right place before I swim in Monaco next weekend in an international competition.”

Although Mayor swam the best individual performances, the top male award went to his Club mate Lewis Wiseman-Ord. The 17-year-old Newcastle swimmer aggressively tackled all his swims producing a lot of best times.

The winning of the 400m individual medal in a personal best 4:36.52 showed a lot of maturity in the way he has been addressing his preparation for races. This also showed in big personal best performances in both the 200m backstroke and 200m breaststroke which he won in 2:28.54.

In the boy’s 15 years section, City of Newcastle took the top three spots through Tom Sproston, Jamie Magee and Andrew Burn. Sproston certainly took the opportunity to improve on his best long-course swims with victories in a number of 15 years events including 2:14.65 for 200m butterfly and 4:11.94 to win the 400m freestyle.

James Row (Newburn) came out on top of the boy’s 12 years section after starting with victory in the 200m freestyle with 2:18.34 ahead of club mate Matthew Reay. Row also took the 200m individual medley in 2:36.71 amongst his wins.

Phoebe Lenderyou (City of Newcastle) was the only local top girl winner at the event coming out on top in the 14 years section. Recently selected for the British team to swim at the European Junior Championships in Finland she used this event to hone her racing skills.

In the 100m backstroke she came back strongly to be just touched out by 100th of a second by 17-year-old Emma Hunter from East Lothian, but then came back to win the 50m backstroke outright in a personal best 30.47.

Derwentside’s Rachael Wilson continues to dominate the breaststroke events and included the 100m race in her victories with 1:12.29.